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The Coronavirus and the Great Influenza Epidemic - Lessons from the 'Spanish Flu' for the Coronavirus's Potential Effects on Mortality and Economic Activity
Barro, Robert J. - 2020
Mortality and economic contraction during the 1918-1920 Great Influenza Epidemic provide plausible upper bounds for …
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International Disease Epidemics and the Shadow Economy
Berdiev, Aziz - 2020
Adding to the emerging body of research related to the current coronavirus crisis, this paper studies the impact of disease epidemics on the worldwide prevalence of the shadow or the underground economy. The informal sector undermines compliance with government regulations and lowers tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828116
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The Economic Impacts of a Pandemic : What Happened after SARS in 2003?
Doan, Vu Nguyen; Nguyen, Canh; Noy, Ilan; Sawada, Yasuyuki - 2021
This study quantifies the economic impacts of SARS on the four affected Asian economies and the two most affected Chinese regions using synthetic control methods with macroeconomic and remote-sensing nightlight data. For the four affected economies (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore), we...
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Pandemics and Economic Growth : Evidence from the 1968 H3N2 Influenza
Jinjarak, Yothin; Noy, Ilan; Ta, Quy - 2021
We evaluate the 1968 H3N2 Flu pandemic’s economic cost in a cross-section of 52 countries. Using excess mortality rates as a proxy for the country-specific severity of the pandemic, we find that the average mortality rate (0.0062% per pandemic wave) was associated with declines in consumption...
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The Japanese Textile Sector and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1920
Noy, Ilan; Okubo, Toshihiro; Strobl, Eric - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp relief the connection between the epidemiology of a virus, the structure of the economy and society that becomes exposed to it, and the actions chosen by government and by individuals and communities to combat it or ameliorate its economic impact....
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The Political Effects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Weimar Germany
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Blum, Matthias; Koenig, Christoph; … - 2023
How do health crises affect election results? We combine a panel of election results from 1893–1933 with spatial heterogeneity in excess mortality due to the 1918 Influenza to assess the pandemic’s effect on voting behavior across German constituencies. Applying a dynamic...
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Nursing Home Aversion Post-Pandemic : Implications for Savings and Long-Term Care Policy
Achou, Bertrand; De Donder, Philippe; Glenzer, Franca; … - 2021
COVID-19 outbreaks at nursing homes during the recent pandemic, which received ample media coverage, may have lasting negative impacts on individuals’ perceptions regarding nursing homes. We argue that this could have sizable and persistent implications for savings and longterm care policies....
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Nursing Homes and Mortality in Europe : Uncertain Causality
Flawinne, Xavier; Lefebvre, Mathieu; Perelman, Sergio; … - 2022
The current health crisis has particularly affected the elderly population. Nursing homes have unfortunately experienced a relatively large number of deaths. On the basis of this observation and working with European data (from SHARE), we want to check whether nursing homes were lending...
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Voluntary and Mandatory Social Distancing : Evidence on COVID-19 Exposure Rates from Chinese Provinces and Selected Countries
Chudik, Alexander - 2020
This paper considers a modification of the standard Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) model of epidemic that allows … on the epidemic and recession curves are investigated and their trade-off is simulated under a number of different social … epidemic curve, but is costly in terms of employment loss. However, if targeted towards individuals most likely to spread the …
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EU Solidarity and Policy in Fighting Infectious Diseases : State of Play, Obstacles, Citizen Preferences and Ways Forward
Ruijter, Anniek de - 2020
In this paper we confront the role the EU traditionally plays in the domain of health with the urgent need for collective action triggered by the corona virus pandemic. In the face of such a crisis, we argue that the joint procurement, stockpiling and allocation of medical countermeasures is a...
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